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Colette Cast as Mrs. Stone in the upcoming Feature Film, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery is a theatrical movie based on the American Girl character, Kit Kittredge, who lives in the Great Depression in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is scheduled to be released on July 2, 2008 in theatres everywhere. Recently, updated details on the Kit movie were posted on Varietys website, among others. It will be produced by Julia Roberts, released by Picturehouse, and written by Ann Peacock (Chronicles of Narnia). Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) has been chosen to play Kit Kittredge, the main character. Other cast members include, Joan Cusack, Chris O’Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Julia Ormond, Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Wallace Shawn, Willow Smith..Thanks Wikipedia!…..now on a more personal note, Im absolutely thrilled to be cast…Its a small role, but its a very dramatic one which I love to do…I originally auditioned for the role of one of the mothers at the garden tea party for Tina Gerussi ..I was a little freaked as this woman is one of the top casting directors in Toronto…and well, for the most part I always think I suck…but she was very kind, patient and warm..so I left feeling that I hadnt embarrassed myself…and then taadaa..I get a message that the director, Patricia Rozema, would like to see me and audition me for another part, Mrs. Stone…again, another very nice woman! She made me feel extremely comfortable and guided me through the audition…it was a pleasure!…so, as I said, Im thrilled to be cast!…and Im looking forward to the final product as I get to chase live chickens! Follow-up I had a blast!...it was a very long day of shooting(15hrs)starting at 5:30am but so enjoyable...everyone involved in this film were so pleasant! they all seemed very happy to be there, very professional and extremely patient...and I loved this director, Patricia Rozema..she made me feel like I had done a great job... so hopefully, if I dont end up on the cutting room floor Im actually looking forward to seeing my performance on screen. Hilights of the day... watching all the kids including Abigail Breslin and Willow Smith (Jada-Pinkett Smith and Will Smiths daughter) be just kids having fun, actually catching a chicken during my scene..my face was crying but in my mind Im screaming...I CAUGHT A CHICKEN, I CAUGHT A CHICKEN!, constantly apologizing to Julia Ormond for blubbering all over her during our scene and hoping that I didnt snot on her during each hug.
Colette to perform with Laverne and Shirleys Cindy Williams and Threes Companys Joyce DeWitt in The Vagina Monologues
Colette Kendall, thats me everyone.. and my good buddy, fellow comedian, Shannon Bell are thrilled to be cast alongside Laverne and Shirleys, Cindy Williams and Threes Companys, Joyce DeWitt in the upcoming Stage West Theatre Restaurant production of Eve Enslers, The Vagina Monologues. Saturday March 3, 11am, Lunch and Show, $59 Afterglow with Cast Members, following Saturday matinee, $25 Monday March 5, 6:30 pm, Dinner and Show, $79 Stage West Theatre Restaurant 5400 Dixie Road, Mississauga Proceeds from the show will go towards Interim Place. Interim Place provides shelter, support, counselling and advocacy to help abused women and their children break the cycle of violence. Last seasons shows sold out and raised almost $30,000! This years cast features volunteer performers from the community, along with celebrity performers. Im so excited to join a long list of female actors who have come together to collaborate and express universal ideas and emotions regarding violence against women and girls. Other celebrities who have starred in the play include: Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, Oprah Winfrey, Winona Ryder and Whoopi Goldberg....really no sh*t!..thats how exciting this is!...now can you imagine if Tippi was to star in this...Im sure her vagina has alot to say!!! Both Shannon and I are honoured to be involved in this production and with such a stellar cast. I think this is such a wonderful opportunity to be involved in an event that not only celebrates women, raises awareness and allows us to envision a world without violence but the icing on the cake is that the proceeds will go to a very worthwhile, albeit unfortunately, an all too necessary organization, Interim Place For your information The Vagina Monologues was written in 1996 by Eve Ensler and is based on her interviews with more than 200 women. With humour and grace the piece celebrates womens sexuality and strength. The Vagina Monologues has been translated into 35 different languages and performed worldwide. Ensler was awarded the Obie Award in 1996 for Best New Play and in 1999 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting. Ensler is a prominent anti-violence activist. In 1998, she founded V-Day as an extension of her play The Vagina Monologues. Today, her movement includes remarkable women around the world fighting to end sex abuse. Their personal stories of triumph over tragedy will inspire you to join the crusade… (Marie Claire 3/02). V-Day is a grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls by raising awareness and funds within local communities through benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues For more information about the play and about V-day please visit www.vday.org. Additional information can also be found at www.stagewest.com and www.interimplace.com.
Tippi Terror in the Audience Trilogy Continues
I’m very excited to announce that Tippi will be heading back out on tour again summer 2007….this time to hit those spots she missed the first go around and to revisit some of her favorite cities with her new show…Part 2 of The Tippi ‘Terror in the audience’ Trilogy… Who’s Afraid of Tippi Seagram? Preliminary scheduling looks like the following: Who’s Afraid of Tippi Seagram? June 14-24…Ottawa Fringe Festival July 18-29…Winnipeg Fringe Festival July 27-August 6…London Fringe Festival (tentative)Aug 24-Sept 2…Victoria Fringe (tentative)Sept 6-16…Vancouver Fringe Tippi Seagram’s Happy Hour July 4-15…Toronto Fringe Festival Aug 16-26…Edmonton Fringe Festival
Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour Nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award!!!
It doesn't get much better than this!!! No sooner do I set foot on Ontario soil, I discover via the grapevine that Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour has been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for best One Person Show. Joy, Glee, Shock, Surprise! Who would have known what a wonderful experience this little Birthday Present to myself would turn out to be!!! Many thanks to all of my audiences..you have made every performance special...with audience participation, each Tippi show is different from the last and it has been my absolute pleasure to be able to laugh with you anew at each show...sometimes you guys say the darndest things!.....Voting for the Awards will take place Sept 27-Oct 11 at www.canadiancomedyawards.ca ...check out all the nominees and then if you are so inclined, send Tippi some love..you know she would appreciate it!
Tippi Nominated for The Georgia Straight's Critic's Pick Award
Tippi Seagram’s Happy Hour was nominated by The Georgia Straight’s Colin Thomas and Kathleen Oliver as 1 of 4 productions singled out for a Critic’s Pick Award....Tippi was also the only solo performer to get the nod. Tippi didn’t win but I was thrilled to be amongst my fellow nominees from the productions Legoland, The Best of the Pyjama Men and Collosus..these performers are wickedly talented!…I am so honoured to have received this vote of confidence…thank you so much Georgia Straight
Tippi...Media Whore
Check out www.tippisblog.com for all of Tippi's latest press...or check back shortly to the Press Section to view the reviews, articles and photos Tippi accumulated on the road.
I"M BACK!
Well it was a wild and wacky adventure crossing this great land of ours...the highs far outnumbered the lows....check out www.tippisblog.com for all the gory details...get to know some of the wonderful performers that blew me away with their talent..the trials, tribulations of life on the road for 10 weeks..or the view from the top of an expensive condo overlooking Coal Harbour, Vancouver ..the reviews...and the touristy stuff...it's all there
Tippi Seagram's Cheeky Teaser
Tippi is now on Youtube!....but you can click on the icon, Tippi's Tour Blog, located on the home page and link directly to her cheeky teaser...just an example of how parts of the show develope through improvisation. Each show is different because you never know what Tippi is going to say!
Tippi Caught Blogging!
Be sure to check out Tippi's Tour Blog (www.tippisblog.com) icon located on the home page of www.colettekendall.com and www.tippiseagram.com Follow the daily adventures of The Incomparable Tippi Seagram and her mundane alter ego, Colette, as they embark on an 11 week Cross Canada tour.
Game On!
April 19th, 2006, officially began the pre-show preparations for the Western Canadian tour of Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour. I had my first interview today with CBC Manitoba and it was a delight to be back in Ms. Seagram Form. The CBC Manitoba is an integral part of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival so I look forward to having future dealings with them. Don't forget to come back and check the SHOWS area for Tippi's specific performance dates and times as well as the dates and times that Colette will be performing stand-up out West. At a glance, Tippi and her minion Colette will be in: Winnipeg July 17-July 31 Saskatoon Aug 1-Aug 13 Calgary Aug 11-Aug 23 Victoria Aug 24-Sept 4 Vancouver Sept 5-Sept 18 If you would like to be a sponsor of Tippi's tour simply drop her a line at hireastar@tippiseagram.com and she'll let you know all the glorious perks that a sponsor of Tippi receives.
You've come a Long Way Baby!
Get your butts in the seats for Thurs July 13th as Colette Headlines at Club 54, Burlington. Just a mere 2 years ago when I started out I performed my 3rd ever set at Club 54...and the room ate me up and spit me out...Well I've come a long way since then Baby...so come on out and watch me make that stage my biatch!
Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour has been invited to perform at The London Fringe Festival Benefit
I'm thrilled to have been invited by the organizers of the London Fringe Festival to have Tippi perform at this years' Fringe Benefit, June 3rd. This is quite an honour for me. The London Fringe is a very well organized, first rate festival that is supported by a solid base of enthusiastic and friendly Theatre Patrons from London. I absolutely had a blast with my audiences in London and look forward to coming back.
Marnie Love travels across Canada
Read the prior news item...The Little Film that Could!.. The short film, Marnie Love, written and directed by Norman Yeung and starring me as Marnie, Lee Kim as my prospective lover and Peter Nelson as my husband just keeps going. Moving Pictures Film Festival, a festival that tours Canada to showcase Canadian films, has invited Marnie Love to be part of the Official Cross Canada Competition. The Vancouver Launch started January 19 at Cinemark Tinseltown 12 Cinemas in Vancouver. Check out the website to see if it will visit your town. http://movingpictures.ca/competition_shorts.htm#marnie_love
The Tippi Seagram..I'm a Canadian Comic going into debt Tour continues
Great news! Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour has now been officially accepted into the Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Victoria Fringes. We are still waiting for word on Vancouver and Toronto.
Global TV covers a comic's view on the Election
January 15th, 2006 11:30 So I get this call from Ruby,the organizer of Einsteins open mike..."Hey Colette...great news! Global's coming down to film tomorrows show"...woohoo! I say..a reason to pull out the black dress pants with the pleat in front.."but" he says "it's for their political coverage, so do some election jokes, okay." and I'm like....Hellloooo!!! I'm hot!...Hot chicks don't do political material..only the ugly asexual one's do! Well apparently I'm not as hot as I think I am and you can catch me on Global giving my view of the upcoming election....look out Air Farce and This hour has 22 minutes writers!
Kendall & Harte...the Canadian version of Sonny and Cher...
January 10th, 2006 Slainte Irish Pub, 33 Bowen St. Hamilton Kendall and Harte, the Canadian version of Sonny and Cher minus musical talent made their inaugural performance hosting the weekly Tuesday open mike at Slaintes. Colette Kendall and John Harte combined their individual stand-up personas and improvisational backgrounds to give the audience an uproarious performance. Check out the show listings for future performances.
Boring Boxing Day?..Check out the Hamilton Spectator Interview with Colette
Pick up your copy of The Hamilton Spectator December 26th to see Doug Foley's interview with Colette. Doug had just finished interviewing Robin Williams and Rod Taylor and decided to slum it for a bit and do a piece on local comedy chick, Colette Kendall....generally, my phone interviews really suck, but this was a good time, thanks to Doug who himself is very engaging and funny. He had me at "Are you as good looking as your pictures?"...Hell yeah Doug! except you really can't see my 3rd breast in any of them.
It's Tippi, No it's Colette on CHTV's Smith n' Hayes
December 20th, 2005 In a rare moment Colette displays 2 of her multiple personalities on air. Join Tippi Seagram and Colette in between mad dashes to the make-up chair as they are both interviewed by Connie Smith and Matt Hayes...airing LIVE!@ 12:30 (Yes, their producer was nervous!...because you never know what Tippi might say)
Colette takes A Coffee Break
Catch Colette on Cable 14's, Coffee Break daily at 16 minutes after the hour, nightly at 25 minutes after the hour running through Christmas and into the New Year. This was one of the first mini bio's that Coffee Break is starting to do with people in the community and Colette shamelessly plugs her heart out.
Vote for Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour as The Brickenden Award for Best Touring Production
Nominations are now open for The Brickenden Awards and Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour is one of the eligible plays for The Best Touring Production. So if you love Tippi let her know by nominating her for a Brickenden. www.brickendenawards.com
Corner Gas Comic Genius annouces Semi-Finalists
The Comedy Network and Corner Gas announce the final 16 semi-finalists in their first on-line stand-up contest and our little Miss Colette is one of them. Check out www.cornergas.com and place your vote for Colette as the Corner Gas Comic Genius...cause well, she needs the money my peeps...Voting opens the first week of Jan 2006
The Little Film that Could!
Catch Colette on the big screen in MARNIE LOVE at the TORONTO REEL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL, November 27 @ 7p.m. Innis Town Hall, Sussex Ave, Tickets $9. http://www.reelasian.com/ A woman brings a man home to meet her husband. The open marriage collapses overnight. Colette is Marnie and she gets to make-out repeatedly with the very handsome Lee Kim....hey it's not cheating!..it's acting!!...god I love this gig! This is a great film thanks to a wonderful script and strong directing by Norman Yeung, a multi-talented artist, and a wonderful cast of Lee Kim, Peter Nelson and me. Read one of the reviews at www.ricepaperonline.com. Marnie Love is being very well received across Canada and has just recently been at The CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (PREMIERE)Love Sucks Program http://calgaryfilm.com/schedule.php?fd=229 check out the photo, that's 1/2 of my body reclining there..hey a credit's a credit) VANCOUVER ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL http://vaff.org/films (We made the poster and the site descriptions) As well the film received an HONOURABLE MENTION
Tippi's going on the Road Again
Happy News for Tippi lovers...and really, who can resist The Incomparable Tippi Seagram....well not Edmonton or Victoria that's for sure. Tippi Seagram's Happy Hour will tour out west Summer 2006 as it's been accepted into both The Edmonton Fringe Festival August 17-27 and The Victoria Fringe Festival August24- September 4, 2006.
Colette takes her special brand of Parenting to The Mom Show on the Life Network
November 14th, 2005 Catch Colette on the Alliance Atlantis produced The Mom Show on the Life Network.
Shooting Untitled Road Trip Movie
Colette has been cast in the role of Sandy, mom to the hero in the as yet Untitled Road Trip Feature Film, written and directed by Adam Santangelo.
Rallying the Troupes
November 11th, 2005 Colette appears along with a stellar line-up of stand-ups, improvisers and sketch artists at this year's Rallying the Troupes, a fundraiser for two non-profit organizations that work with marginalized communities in Toronto, The Native men's Residence (Na-Me-Re) and Common Ground Co-op. Minimum Donation $10
Hog wild for Colette at the Hogtown Comedy Festival
The Hogtown Comedy Festival runs Nov 3-6 with 2 great opportunites to catch Colette perform. She is Headlining at Going for the Gold, Nov 3 at Yuk's flagship club on Richmond St. Toronto. You can also catch Colette again closing night, Nov 6 Headlining for Going for the Silver at Einstein's Bar, College St. Toronto
WERC Fundraiser
October 28, 2005 Colette performs for a crowd of over 200 at the Women's Employment Resource Center fundraiser, Woodstock, Ontario. The event raises over $5000 for this very important community resource.
The House of Comedy puts out the Welcome mat for Colette
October 21, 2005 Colette performs at the House of Comedy, Niagara as the middle act.
Tippi Raises Money for Kids!?
October 14th, 2005 The Incomparable Tippi Seagram makes a rare appearance at the beautiful, 750 seat Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton to perform for the McMaster Children's Hospital fundraiser. Tickets $18